"In the 1800s, no one could agree on who owned West Florida.“

Here’s an excerpt I found most endearing and meaningful, and it’ll surely make my history-enthused bones chill a bit:

[...] for Davis, West Florida presents a theory about how American expansion really happened. It wasn't "some grand patriotic, ethnically American drive, the sense of Manifest Destiny," he says. "That's nonsense. It's driven by personal motives of profit and entrepreneurialism, and that's not a criticism at all. It's people moving West, where they're less constrained by law and order."

And in the case of West Florida, that meant making a country in order to make a living.

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